Jonah Goldberg recently warned that too many people are “catastrophizing” this election, that the world might end if the candidate we hate wins. David Frum, once a speechwriter for George W. Bush, hates Donald Trump with such an intensity that he went on CNN’s morning show to compare Trump to an Earth-destroying giant comet.
FRUM: if you’re told there’s a giant comet heading toward Earth and it’s got up only about a 45 percent chance of hitting the planet, 55 percent chance it misses, you think — well, I guess on balance that’s good, but it’s still a very unacceptable risk of being hit by a giant comet….
And if you’re told that the captain of the ship that supposed to detonate the device that averts the comet, maybe a little old, you say, well, maybe it would be get better to have a young person, but since the ship has left Earth already, we just…
